λ A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

λ A WILLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY MARY ELIZABETH BERRY

worked with polychrome silks on a linen ground, with cross stitch, with a three storey Georgian house, flanked by a pair of Adam and Eves, with baskets of fruit and flowers, with various birds and a verse, signed and dated 'Mary Elizabeth Berry Aged 11 years 1837', in a glazed rosewood frame

41.9 x 30cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.126 for a discussion of this sampler.